The Future of the City Centre: Global Perspectives by Bob Giddings and Robert J Rogerson
English | December 30, 2022 | ISBN: 0367692732, 0367692759 | 264 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Future of the City Centre: Global Perspectives debates future directions. It looks beyond the post-industrial, post-commercial, and post-retail city centres to examine differing visions of the future form and function of the urban core. This theme and the related sub-topics will assist the development of future city models and help to contextualise urban change.

Stephen Jacobs, "Sustainable Living at the Centre for Alternative Technology: Radical Ideas and Practical Solutions "
English | ISBN: 1032075627 | 2022 | 204 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This book presents a detailed exploration into the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), an enterprise concerned with finding and communicating sustainable ways of living, established in Wales in 1973. Playing a central role in the global green network, this study examines CAT's history and context for creation, its development over time and its wider influence in the progression of green ideas at the local, national and international levels.

Dick Porter, "Dick Porter: Journey To The Centre Of The Cramps"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1783053739 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 1.5 mb
Based upon work and materials compiled for the acclaimed and now much sought after 2007 Cramps biography A Short History of Rock'n'Roll Psychosis, Journey To The Centre Of The Cramps goes far beyond being a revised and updated edition: Completely overhauled, rewritten and vastly expanded, it now represents the definitive work on the group. In addition to unseen interview material from Ivy, Lux and other former band members, Journey To The Centre Of The Cramps also sees the Cramps' story through to its conclusion, recounting Lux's unexpected death in 2009, the subsequent dissolution of the group and their enduring legacy. The Cramps' history, influences and the cast of characters in and around the group are likewise explored in far greater depth. Features unseen first-hand interview material from Lux Interior and Poison Ivy. A wealth of new interview material with former band members and other key players in the band's history and never before seen/rare photographs and ephemera to help illustrate the book.

Size: 184.65 MB | Total Duration: 01:18:12 | Total Tracks: 19
Format: MPEG Audio | 320 Kbps
Album: Lloyd Noble Centre 1983 (live)
Artist: Journey
Genre: Pop
Date/Year: 2022

English | ISBN: 9781662137129 | 2020 | MP3 | M4B | 4h | 129 MB
The Japanese for Beginners Audiobook will guide you in attaining a basic, conversational level of Japanese. You'll study sentence structure, grammar rules, and vocabulary in order to understand and be comfortable using the language. You'll learn the fundamentals of Japanese, including basic grammar, writing and pronunciation. You'll become comfortable with greetings and introductions, expressing your likes and dislikes and the things you have and want, describing the locations of items and people, using numbers, making plans, and using language that will aid you when travelling. You'll learn to construct basic sentences in past, present, and future tenses and how to conjugate verbs and adjectives to fit these forms. The audiobook covers expressing continuous and completed actions, making requests and giving directions, describing abilities and talents, asking for and giving permission, expressing options, making comparisons, and giving advice. The Japanese for Beginners Audiobook is perfect for you if you are completely new to the language, or have had very little experience with it, and wish to give yourself a solid foundation to build upon. It will help you get to a conversational level of comprehension that will help when travelling, working or studying in Japan. It also acts as a good entry point to the language, should you wish to carry on to further study. Of course, you can also take the audiobook if you are simply interested in Japanese history and culture and wish to become further engrossed in it.

English | ISBN: 9781667918402 | 2021 | MP3 | M4B | 3h | 94 MB
Tailored to learners who have mastered the basic tones, words, and phrases of Mandarin Chinese, this audiobook will help you to learn complex sentence structures and expand your vocabulary, enabling you to better express yourself and have more meaningful conversations.

Centre and Periphery, Roots and Exile: Interpreting the Music of István Anhalt, György Kurtág, and Sándor Veress By Friedemann Sallis, Robin Elliott, Kenneth DeLong
2011 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 1554581486 | PDF | 10 MB
This book examines the impact place and displacement can have on the composition and interpretation of Western art music, using as its primary objects of study the work of István Anhalt (1919-2012) György Kurtág (1926-) and Sándor Veress (1907-92). Although all three composers are of Hungarian origin, their careers followed radically different paths. Whereas, Kurtág remained in Budapest for most of his career, Anhalt and Veress left: the former in 1946 and immigrated to Canada and the latter in 1948 and settled in Switzerland. All three composers have had an extraordinary impact in the cultural environments within which their work took place. In the first section, "Place and Displacement," contributors examine what happens when composers and their music migrate in the culturally complex world of the late twentieth century. The past one hundred years produced record numbers of refugees, and this fact is now beginning to resonate in the study of music. As Anhalt himself forcefully asserts, however, not all composers who emigrate should be understood as exiles. The first chapters of this book explore some of the problems and questions surrounding this issue. Essays in the second section, "Perspectives on Reception, Analysis, and Interpretation," look at how performing acts of interpretation on music implies bringing the time, place, and identity of the musician, the analyst, and the teacher to bear on the object of study. Like Kodály, Kurtág considers his work to be "naturally" embedded in Hungarian culture, but he is also a quintessentially European artist. Much of his production-he is one of the twentieth century's most prolific composers of vocal music-involves the setting of Hungarian texts, but in the late 1970s his cultural horizons expanded to include texts in Russian, German, French, English, and ancient Greek. The book explores how musicologists' divergent cultural perspectives impinge on the interpretation of this work. The final section, "The Presence of the Past and Memory in Contemporary Music," examines the impact time and memory can have on notions of place and identity in music. All living art taps into the personal and collective past in one way or another. The final four chapters look at various aspects of this relationship.

A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
pdf | 1.51 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B002RKRMSY | Author: Jules Verne | Year: 2009

Making of a Satellite Centre: The Genesis of ISRO's URSC
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811634793 | 110 Pages | PDF | 4.31 MB
This book tells the story of the evolution of the Satellite Center which started from a small Satellite Systems Division in 1967 with a handful of engineers to a vibrant R&D center which is playing the lead role in the Indian Satellite Program. India's space program is unique as it is driven by societal applications. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has centers dedicated to various space applications. The ISRO Satellite Centre, now known as the UR Rao Satellite Centre (URSC), has evolved as lead center for Satellite Technology over five decades and has developed state-of-the-art satellites for applications such as remote sensing, satellite communication and space science. Through the story of URSC, the book describes the challenges of putting together new research and development centers and programs and conveys the importance of leadership and project management skills required to undertake such a task. This book is of interest to researchers, professionals, and administrators involved in the development of new R&D facilities and also to space scientists and space enthusiasts across the world.

SOE's Secret Weapons Centre: Station 12 By Des Turner
2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0752459449 | EPUB | 1 MB

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